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The Five Worst Op-Eds of 2012
Bad arguments and bad writing from the nation's top opinionmongers
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38 Studios: Curt Schilling's Crony Capitalism Debacle
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So What's Next, Mr. President?
Nearly every decision made during Obama's presidency has been conducted under the canopy of catastrophe.
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Detroit
City of unintended consequences!
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4 Things You Need to Know About Secretary of State Nominee John Kerry
Don't let his reputation as a peacenik fool you. John Kerry is no anti-interventionist.
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Fiscal Irresponsibility Day
Washington rams through an appropriately hideous deal.
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Sex, Lies, Jazz: Feb. Reason Preview w Matt Welch and Kennedy
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No Regulation? No Problem
Intuition leads us to think—wrongly—that without government we'd be victims of fraud.
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Fiscal Cliff Deal Raises Taxes, Delays Sequestration...And Will Cut Spending!
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January: The Perfect Time to Debate the Filibuster
The month was named after Janus—the Roman god who had two faces.
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Plead Guilty or Go to Prison for Life
The stark choice given a medical marijuana grower highlights the injustice of mandatory minimums.
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How to "Spin" Conservatives Into Worrying About the Environment
Make them feel disgust, say researchers.
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To Revive the Economy, Cut Federal Spending
Obama and Boehner are both big spenders. That's the problem.
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The 5 Best Drug Scares of 2012
Meth babies, deadly energy drinks, fake pot, higher schools, and the drug that makes you eat people's faces
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A Tax Cuts Mystery
If Government spending wasn’t out of control, no one would have wanted to kill Bush tax cuts
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Who’s Attacking the Constitution Now?
Many ardent supporters of the Second Amendment are not quite so ardent about the First.
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'A Highly Personal Music'
Jazz, commerce, and individualism.
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Examine Inequality’s Causes Before Prescribing Solutions
Fear and loathing of income inequality is both totally understandable and ultimately misplaced.
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Labor Union Fights Liquor Store Privatization in Pennsylvania
How organized labor is resisting efforts to privatize the state-owned liquor monopoly.
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Top 10 Food Policy Success Stories of 2012
This year had its share of good news for supporters of food freedom.
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Why Chuck Hagel Should Tell Obama to Go to Hell
The prospective defense secretary will be more influential by speaking out against war and empire.
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Craig R. Whitney on Living With Guns
A liberal's case for the Second Amendment
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Tough Year Ahead for California Taxpayers and Wealth Producers
The Golden State’s big government keeps getting bigger.
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Congress Has Enough Time to Keep Spying on You, Forever
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Les Misérables
Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman sing for their Oscars.
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NFL Player Chris Kluwe on Being a Libertarian
The Minnesota Vikings punter discusses libertarianism, anarchism, Ayn Rand, empathy, and what he’d change about the U.S. government.
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I, Tomato: Morning Star's Radical Approach to Management
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Reviving the GOP
How can the Republican Party dig itself out of the hole it’s in?
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Our Favorite - and Least Favorite - Things in 2012 (Non-Politics Edition)
Forget politics for a minute. Here's what Reason staffers liked - and hated - in the past year.
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American Apocalypse
Never-ending predictions that the world is about to end
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Busting Bikinis and the Cop Who Wants to Fine Cursing! (Nanny of the Year 2012)
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'I Do My Thing and You Do Your Thing'
When psychologists discovered individualism.
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Sometimes a School Needs an Intervention
In districts with underperforming schools, unhappy parents have few means by which to catalyze change.
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Charity Begins With Wealth Creation
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Putin Goes to Church
Russia’s unholy new alliance between Orthodox and state
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Who Is Too Unbalanced to Be Armed?
The danger of treating gun violence as a mental health problem
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The Rioter’s Veto
Can violence in the Middle East justify censorship in the United States?
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Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino and Jamie Foxx redress the horrors of American slavery.
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2012: From Arab Spring to Early Winter
From Egypt to Syria to Russia, reactionary forces are on the rise.
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Half the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
Old truths decay and new ones are born at an astonishing rate.
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Check out Reason's New LA Headquarters!
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End the Food Protectionism Racket
Food protectionism is harmful, rampant, and stupid.
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NRA Fights Anti-Gun Hysteria With Pro-Gun Hysteria
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Years Without a Santa Claus
Puritans, pagans, and Christmas.
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Remy: I Saw Daddy Pat Down Santa Claus (A Very TSA Christmas Song)
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California Lawmakers Aim to Restrict Gun Rights
Golden State legislators join the gun control chorus in the wake of Sandy Hook.
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Fiscal Hawks Need to Fight for the Debt Ceiling
It is a constitutional tool to save America from itself
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Mayan Apocalypse or Y2K?
Mesoamerican calendar confusion causes 2012 chaos.
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How Capitalism Made the Christmas Tree Better
Originally intended as an antidote to commercialism, the Christmas tree soon had the opposite impact.
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Jack Reacher
Tom Cruise misfires in the role of an ultra-hard-boiled investigator.
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The Fall Of Tam's #6: How LA Regulated A Burger Stand Out of Existence
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The Auto Bailout Failure Is Now Complete
The bailout exemplifies much of what's wrong with government.
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Don’t Believe the Hype About “Dangerous” Christmas Toys
Welcome to the season of bogus scare stories.
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Wrong Answers for Mass Shootings
Rounding up the usual suspects: certain firearms, mental illness, and video games
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Grover Norquist on Fiscal Cliff, Tax Pledges, & Being the GOP's "Rasputin"
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It's the Spending, Stupid!
Ludicrous, irresponsible spending is why we're in trouble
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When Cities Go Bankrupt
Municipal failure is bad for creditors and unions, but potentially good for taxpayers.
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Zero Dark Thirty
Jessica Chastain on the trail of Osama bin Laden.
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The Limits of Gun Control in the Wake of the Sandy Hook Massacre
Outrage does not make ill-conceived policies smarter or more effective.
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How Big Labor Plans to Fight Michigan's Right-to-Work Law
Labor unions weigh their options in the courtroom and at the ballot box.
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Could a Threat Assessment Have Prevented the Sandy Hook Massacre?
Social scientists try to prevent school shootings by identifying possible perpetrators.
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How Indianapolis Fixed Its Parking Problems
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A '9/11 For Schools?' Let's Hope Not
A decade of frantic overreaction and wasteful, destructive policies based on the false promise of perfect safety
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2012: The Year in Books
Reason writers pick the best books of the year
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Six Degrees of Military Spending
Nearly everyone knows someone who gets paid by the Pentagon. That’s why it’s so hard to cut.
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The Best and Worst Christmas Films (Libertarian Edition)
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Office Pool 2013
Predicting the next mayor of New York City, new Fed leadership, and who the Supreme Court will irritate most
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Are Mass Shootings Becoming More Common in the United States?
Making sense of the data.
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Right-to-Work Laws Are, Indeed, Libertarian
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At Sandy Hook Memorial, Obama Showcases the Magical Thinking of Gun Controllers
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Gay Participation Hurts Neither Military Nor Marriage
The hand-wringing about dire consequences is an attempt to dress up base motives in more respectable garb
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Your Cellphone Is Spying on You
How the surveillance state co-opted personal technology
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Florida’s Property Rights Abuse Lands at the Supreme Court
The justices prepare to hear a major 5th Amendment case.
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The Irrelevance of "Right-to-Work" Laws
The battle over labor laws makes for great theater, but for the most part, theater is all it is.
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The Libertarian Case Against Right-to-Work Laws
An earlier generation of libertarians and classical liberals condemned so-called right-to-work laws.
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In Wake of Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting, Some Sober Talk About Gun Control
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How to Fix the Current Farm Bill Fiasco
Congress should neither revert to the 1949 Farm Bill nor pass a new five-year Farm Bill. What's the alternative?
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4 Awful Reactions to Sandy Hook School Shooting - And Thoughts on a Better Response
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Marijuana Is Legal in Colorado…Now What?
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Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting: 5 Rules for Coping with Tragedy
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The Top 5 U.S. Foreign Policy Screw-Ups of 2012
From its policies in Libya to its approach to Syria, the Obama administration has been a disappointment on the world stage in 2012.
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The War Over Weed
If you know why marijuana was banned, you know why it should be legalized.
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Obama Finally Responds to Legal Pot in Colorado and Washington: Feds Won't Go After Users; No Word on Suppliers
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Peter Jackson on a surprisingly flawed new quest.
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Why Obamacare's Health Care Cost Controls Won't Work
Our sad, failed history of technocratic cost controls.
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Why Copyright Law is so Mickey Mouse - And How to Fix It: Q&A with Jerry Brito
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Urban Renewal, Corporate-Style
Zappos.com founder tries to resurrect downtown Las Vegas.
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Gun Rights Find a New Home
A federal appeals court rules Illinois cannot maintain its flat ban on concealed-carry.
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Government Spying Out of Control
The President and the leadership of both political parties have abandoned their oaths to uphold the Constitution.
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What 3-D Printing Means for Gun Rights
Cutting-edge technology meets the right to keep and bear arms.
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Who Benefits from the Mortgage Interest Deduction?
If the mortgage interest deduction were to be phased out, who would lose out on the subsidy?
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Judge Napolitano: How Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson Destroyed Constitutional Freedom
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Unsafe Security
A sociologist aptly analyzes our failures in top-down protection.
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Gun Control, Ad Infinitum
Gun control is something Americans almost never stop talking about.
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Pennsylvania Court Strikes Blow Against Asset Forfeiture Regime
In a decision filed last month, Commonwealth Court Judge Dan Pellegrini called the state’s civil asset forfeiture law “state-sanctioned theft.”
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Smoking Pot and Tying the Knot
Familiarity is breeding tolerance of marijuana and gay marriage.
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How U.N. Climate Change Negotiations Threaten Economic Growth
Misguided responses to man-made climate change pose a severe threat to future human prosperity.
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